Hotel "inn"terception

Hotel “Inn”terception investigates the violent weaponisation of Beiruts Holiday Inn hotel during the 1975 Lebanese Civil War. The studio asks students to critically map the structure's spatial conditions during its use as a military stronghold throughout the beginning of the conflict, asking students to challenge the mechanisms of architectural research and representation through bespoke drawing techniques and computer modelling softwares. Through these critical spatial mappings students have been asked to launch an investigation into its violent appropriation, and its now abandonment proposing an alternative to the structures decaying conditions. The studio focussed on the buildings rehabilitation and re-occupation through speculative architectural theory, questioning the role of architecture as a form activism.

Studio Leaders: Bader (Bud) Rizk